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Wikidata weekly summary #435

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Linking the 20th century paper history to the sum of all knowledge (Best practice presentation at DCMI Virtual 2020)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 29 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: WikiNeocomensia: Wikidata + OpenRefine, workshop in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and in French, October 3
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #32, October 4

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
  • Sidestepping the limitations of collection catalogues with machine learning and Wikidata
  • Navigating the maze of Wikidata query logs by Angela Bonifati, Wim Martens, Thomas Timm
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the Global Climate Strike: Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata tutorial for lecturers (in Czech) - YouTube
  • Video: Creating and enriching linked data with Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Mix'n'Match Tutorial - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata for librarians (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • omeka-s-wikidata is an Omeka-S module for auto-suggesting Wikidata URIs and labels.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • Nominate your favorite tools for the Coolest Tool Award 2020 before October 14th.
  • Wikidata Walkabout is a new site that lets you browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata: wikidatawalkabout.org
  • Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography, opening time, closing time, engine displacement, expansion of, Netflix maturity rating, TDD number
    • External identifiers: American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust ID (person), Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Book Marks ID, Re-Member ID, SPoT skater ID, NDL law ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Dallas Museum of Art ID, FBref.com squad ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID, Lambiek comic magazines ID, Energy Identification Code, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Ministry of the Interior of Italy ID, National Park Service place ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, Open Civic Data Division ID, Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Regional Council of Tuscany ID, level of professionalness, defined in terms of, form of property constraint, Attraction to, group identity, analog television standard, ritual object, number of rooms
    • External identifiers: USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Indonesian prison database ID, LinkedIn group ID, Naver movie ID, CINE21 film ID, Movist film ID, KOBIS-ID, Max Movie film ID, The Boardr profile ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID, Google Play developer slug, Passion Patrimoine ID, FVLB work ID, BBC Sound Effects Asset ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID
  • Query examples:
    • Table of the 100 most recent additions of interactive OpenStreetMap maps to English Wikipedia articles - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of the birthplace of persons with an ELEM id on Wikidata (Source)

• Development
  • A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist setting enabled. (The Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.)
  • Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
  • Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
  • Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (phab:T232620)
  • Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
  • Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
  • WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #436

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Fuzheado

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
  • Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
  • Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
    • External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
    • External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
    • Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available. - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
    • List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
    • Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
    • Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
    • Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
  • Newest database reports:
    • EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.

• Development
  • First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
  • Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
  • Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
  • Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (phab:T264294)
  • Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (phab:T232620)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:06, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #437

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MsynABot
  • Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado (successful)

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
  • Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
  • A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
  • LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
  • Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc

• Tool of the week
  • OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
  • The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
  • The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
    • External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
    • External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
    • Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
    • Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
    • Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
    • Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
    • National Anthems by tonality (Source)

• Development
  • The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
  • Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
  • Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
  • Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
  • Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
  • Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:28, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #438

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperabilidade e acesso aos dados, in Portuguese by Ederporto (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - October 22 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT)
  • WikiCite 2020: Virtual Conference happening 26-28 October 2020. Many live-stream sessions across several languages and timezones. LWyatt (WMF) (talk)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Tisane Labs announce new feature in Tisane API, allowing tagging and extraction of Wikidata entities: blog post
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing at HACK4OPENGLAM - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata Lexeme BY Mahir256 - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to SPARQL (in Swedish) - YouTube
  • Video: Bibliographic data on Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ritual object
    • External identifiers: Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Spotify playlist ID, Artist ID of the department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, NBIC taxon ID, Danish educational institution number, CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Unicode name, branch or affiliate, economy of topic, checkin and checkout times (v.2), maximum current, Skipsrevyen ID, route operated, power plant unit, annual average daily traffic, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par
    • External identifiers: Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, CCFr library ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica, BHL name ID, AWMDB person ID, AVN person ID, American Heritage ID, xHamster ID, Great Places ID, Famepedia ID, Nachlässe in Austria, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, PAN member, DC Historic Sites ID, Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939), Concise Literary Encyclopedia, aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of 3D models of structures mapped in OpenStreetMap that are available under Creative Commons licenses at Wikimedia Commons - OSM/Wikidata query (sophox.org)
    • Item named after item named after item named after item named after item named after item
    • UK parliament members' opposition posts, start dates and end dates where Wikidata has a Parliament ID for that member (Source)
    • Count of Irish Statutory Instruments, 1948-2020 (Source)
    • Movie genre trends (Source)
    • Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (Source)
    • List of sovereign states in en, fr, de, ru (Source)
    • Locations depicted in paintings (Source)
    • The most commonly depicted locations (Source)

• Development
  • Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
  • So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
  • Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
  • Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:56, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #439

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
  • Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
  • Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
  • Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
    • WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
    • Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
    • 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
    • Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
    • Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
    • Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Excerpts from Wikidata Birthday events
    • Video: How the Wikimedia Brazil contributed to Wikidata in 2020 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Video: Introduction to Wikidata and data reconciliation (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (Blog post)
  • WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations (including plenty of Wikidata-related projects)
  • Video: Eyoungstrom and Evolution and evolvability explore and explain different Wikidata tools in 15-part series on YouTube - Playlist
  • Video: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperability and data access (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata for cultural institutions and GLAM-WIKI partnerships (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Wikidata Training Workshop 4, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)

• Tool of the week
  • WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
  • Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) develops instructional material for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS): wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of rooms, permits, prohibits, economy of topic, check-in time, check-out time
    • External identifiers: CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article, GADM ID, Lambiek Special pages ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, ILO Thesaurus ID, AVN performer ID, CCFr library ID, xHamster performer ID, AWMDB performer ID, Normattiva ID, American Heritage place ID, BHL name ID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Minecraft UUID, Nachlässe in Austria ID, AniList anime ID, National Park Service people ID, AniList manga ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, O*NET OnLine code, Opta football competition ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, The Boardr profile ID, Great Places ID, PIM award ID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, DC Historic Sites place ID, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: annual average daily traffic, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par, Online catalog, funeral, Inaugural address, Hong Kong film rating, word lookup, hair or facial hair style, Cup size, for color scheme
    • External identifiers: aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole, Base constructions bibliothèques ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Malmö Museer, IMVDb music video ID, NSSDCA ID, Docker Hub repository, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Persée article ID, Geneanet Family Name ID, Blogger user profile ID, USL League One ID, Stolperstein identifiers, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID
  • Query examples:
    • Commemorative plaques and their subjects in Aberdeen, Scotland; with photos of plaque and subject and Wikipedia links. (Source)
    • Cities with female mayor (Source)
    • Most common variants of the name "Susanne" in each country (Source)
    • Birthplaces of art historians (Source)
    • Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (Source)
    • Birthplace of Olympique de Marseille players (Source)
    • COVID-19 deaths by month (Source)
  • Wikimedia Commons Query examples:
    • Get information of Europeana item using federated query

• Development
  • Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
  • Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
  • Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
  • Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
  • Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
  • Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
  • Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
  • Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
  • Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
  • Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:00, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #440

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
  • Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
  • Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great), by Will Kent
  • Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!, by Stella Wisdom
  • Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th, by Jens Bemme
  • Video: Why is Wikidata important? (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish)
  • SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons, by Zbyszko Papierski
  • Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to query wikidata with SPARQL, by Lianna D'amato
  • CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch, by Egon Willighagen
  • Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
  • Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20, by David Nind
  • Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia, by Daniel Mietchen
  • Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian)
  • All videos from the WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference are now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.

This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.

1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.

• Tool of the week
  • reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
    • All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia Commons (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
    • Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
    • Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
    • Happy Birthday from Semantic MediaWiki
    • Wikidata Lexeme Forms ?language_code feature: announcement tweet and documentation edit
    • Automated finding references: dump and dashboard (Wikidata development team - announcement)
    • Better Item quality judgments from ORES (Wikidata development team)
    • Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement)
    • Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon organized by WikiProject India.
    • Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
    • Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer.
    • User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema
  • The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a distributed format. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021.
  • The Election Tracker, uses Wikidata to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world.
  • Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11 are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io
  • witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for accused witches in Scotland.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: die axis, annual average daily traffic, maximum current
    • External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, VA facility ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, Persée article ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, Base constructions bibliothèques ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Matrix room, regex (lang), Ukrainian romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index, Business Number (Canada), notable tv series, number of points or goals attempted
    • External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, NCAA school code, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Twitch team ID, Twitch tag ID, FINA Wiki ID, All the Tropes identifier, MTMT journal ID, UAF person ID, Soccerway stadium ID, NCAA Statistics player ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, Wolfram language WordData sense, Namuwiki
  • Query examples:
    • Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors)
    • Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
    • Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons (Source)
    • Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) (Source)
    • Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (Source)
    • Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned (Source)
    • Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source)
    • Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata (Source)
    • Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 (Source)
    • Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy (Source)
    • Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery
    • Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth (Source)
    • Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards
  • Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography

• Development
  • Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435)
  • Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883)
  • Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266673)
  • The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:47, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #441

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
  • Other
    • "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses
    • Value label constraint

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38, November 15

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata by Houcemeddine Turki
  • Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (French, English) by Houcemeddine Turki
  • Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
  • Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata. by Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
  • Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as {{Used}}. Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01.
  • Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: birth rate, port calls, rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
    • External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Vélib' Métropole station ID, Blogger user profile ID, Malmö Museer ID, MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, MetaSat ID, epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), covid info, filestore
    • External identifiers: AniDB tag ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID, ClassInd game ID, Qobuz label ID, IMMuB album ID, FIS grass skier ID, AlKindi ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID, EIK, edition humboldt digital ID, European Film Awards ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, IMMuB artist ID, AIWARDS ID, LIMIS person ID, IAFD distributor ID
  • Query examples:
    • Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain (Source)
    • POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age (Source)
    • Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year (Source)
    • People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States (Source)
    • Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS (Source)
    • Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s (Source)
    • Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) (Source)
    • List of longest Cars (Source)

• Development
  • Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
  • Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
  • Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
  • Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
  • Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
  • Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #442

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 17 at 18:00 CET
  • Upcoming: SWIB20 (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference, multiple Wikidata-related presentations, free and online, November 23-27
  • Upcoming: Editathon (or "connection sprint") on parliamentarian documents in Swedish, November 20
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Dan Shick on creating and managing community documentation, November 17. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #39, November 22
  • Past: ELIXIR BioHackathon 2020 updates:
    • Project #13: >20 thousand PDB ligand identifiers added and new formatter URL: https://twitter.com/ESchymanski/status/1326875606177492993
    • Project #33: Using wikidata query service in the taxon_mapper in Molseq - connecting molecular (genbank) and specimen (GBIF) data app
    • Project #35: Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas with Wikidata starting at 18:00

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Knowledge graph (in Polish) by Zbyszko Papierski on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 6:45 pm to 9:30 pm GMT+1
  • Video: A Linked and Open Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic in the Bronze Age by Martina Trognitz, recorded in April 2019
  • Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas
  • Video: Introduction to Gene Wiki
  • Video: ISB Biocuration 2020 Online Workshop: Genewiki 2 Methodology - Updating with bots
  • Video: An Introduction to Wikibase and Wikidata. Barbara Fischer and Sarah Hartmann
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24
  • Video: Programming for Cultural Heritage: Using Python to retrieve data from Wikidata
  • Video: Wikipedia & Wikidata for Middle East Librarians
  • Video: OpenStreetMap & Wikidata using Sophox - OpenStreetMap US Connect 2020
  • Video: Adding Pashas to Wikidata. 7 videos: Wikipedia to OpenRefine, Standardizing dates, Standardizing names in OpenRefine, Wikidata reconciliation, Adding additional data, Combining Arabic and English Lists, Wikidata Schema
  • Blogpost: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data. "Most of the individuals we have found are obviously relatively obscure and have no item entry in Wikidata...As such, we have created around one thousand new items over the last two months, all of which serve as a framework to record the key parameters of a cleric’s career".

• Tool of the week
  • ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dedicated heritage entity, defining mutations, digitised by, for color scheme, parent (unspecified)
    • External identifiers: MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID, IMVDb music video ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, Docker Hub repository, USL League One ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, ClassInd game ID, AAGM people ID, AAGM site ID, AniDB tag ID, UAF person ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Opera Online performer ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica ID, BBFC reference, AlKindi ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Twitch tag ID, European Film Awards ID, MSRI institution ID, MSRI person ID, stolpersteine-berlin.de Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-hamburg.de Stolperstein identifier, LIMIS person ID, NSDOK Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-bremen.de Stolperstein identifier, snublestein.no Stolperstein identifier, AIWARDS ID, Twitch team ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: use as citation in Wikimedia page, GitLab username, given name identical to this family name, population connectée, indexed in bibliographic review, ISDS ID, inscription image, Wanfang article ID, CQVIP article ID, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, CIP data sheet
    • External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IAFD distributor ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, FISG person ID, Ligue 1 player ID, Ligue 2 player ID, AAA ID, Museum Day ID, TeachMe tutor ID, ISOF place, CRGPG ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, Geneall ID, Namuwiki (2), Union des artistes ID, Kinorium Movie ID, Kinorium Person ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, Foodlocate Restaurant ID, Musica Brasilis ID, IEV number, CONOR authority IDs, LibraryThing venue ID, BPI ID, PromoDj ID, Salzburgwiki, Drizly Product ID, Baijiahao ID, ESPN men's college basketball team ID
  • Query examples:
    • Rivers and canals in the United Kingdom.
    • Map of images taken for the Wicipics photography campaign in Wales (Source)
    • Number of people and terms of UK parties since the 1945 election (Source)
    • UK MPs who have voluntarily resigned their seats and then come back for a different seat in the same Parliament (Source)
    • Media articles, public documents and academic references on backward/cluster-focused contact tracing (including models) (Source)
    • Date of birth of current French prefects and their sources (Source)
    • Protected heritage related to the Camino in the Basque Country (Source)
    • Living 'notable' people with the given name "Karen" per 100k per country (Source)
    • Paintings in the Suter Art Gallery (Source)
    • Chilean ministers who were not educated at any high school (Source)
    • Age of US presidents start and end time (Source)
    • Map of Welsh Railways (Source)
    • Connections of railways of the Netherlands (Source)
    • Distinct languages of Wikidata lexemes. Top 5 are Russian-101144, English-69066, Latin-32106, Hebrew-28286 and Basque-22904.(Source)
    • Death place of all Basque people with known birthplace on Wikipedia, by century. Interactive map on kepler.gl (Source)

• Development
  • Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (phab:T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
  • Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (phab:T266638)
  • Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
  • Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
  • Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (phab:T191831)
  • Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266496)
  • Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (phab:T267553) and prototype test workflow (phab:T267554)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:15, 16 November 2020 (UTC)